Experienced Office Furniture’s recent fit out of the new Gateway building on Parry Street included over 300 sit stand workstations, creating one of Newcastle's first workspaces of this size focusing strongly on wellbeing in the workplace. The workspace aims for an optimum level of wellbeing in the office and promoting a healthy approach to the work day.

 

For the Gateway Building fitout there were four prototype sit stand workstations designed and manufactured by Experienced Office Furniture in consultation with the client and end users. These prototypes were then placed before a testing and development process which spanned over 12 months.

In this testing process, a sample office space was set up at the client’s previous location and they trialled each prototype throughout the year. After consultation between the client and Experienced Office Furniture a custom design sit stand desk was developed and then installed across the entire fitout. An integrated power and data system was also developed at the same time to meet the client’s specific equipment requirements.

 

Colour schemes were developed across the floors in consultation with interior designers. The use of colour helped zone the different departments across the four floors. This concept created clarity between the departments and also a sense of unity within each department. The colours where chosen to reflect the corporate colour scheme and mainly used throughout the fabric panelling of the screens.